The Replacements, 'Let It Be'

Copping a
Beatles
title was cheeky; attaching it to a post-punk masterpiece was a sign of maturity. Songs like "I Will Dare" sizzle with ambition. Mixing punk and country with wry lyrics, "Unsatisfied" sounds like Paul Westerberg demanding more of himself and of his band. He got it.

How can dark Side of theMoon by Pink Floyd only be no 43/500 when all the albums above it are nowhere near as good.DSOM was undoubtedly the best album ever made and surely destined to be the best selling album of all time.I am listening to it righr now and it sounds every bit as good as it did in 1973 when it came out.Of Course-I could be bias

It would have been nice to see Jimi Hendrix's First Rays of the New Rising Sun on here, because he died when making this album, so it's kinda specialBut...DARK SIDE OF THE MOON AT 43!?ZOSO AT 69!?WISH YOU WERE HERE AT 211!? LET IT BE AT 392!?IN UTERO AT 435!? PHYSICAL GRAFITTI AT 73!?

I see people squawking 'cuz rap artists aren't better represented than RS feels is their due. RS probably feels the way I do about it which is this: Imagine you're writing a comedy sketch. Its your job to conceive of a band that is the absolute WORST band eve. One composed of people who can neither sing or play an instrument of any kind. Their musical "talent" having never gone beyond the talent it takes to take a record out of its jacket, put it on the turntable and hit the "ON" switch. What would this bunch of musical misfits try and pull off on the public? Well first off, none of them can sing of course. So instead they just talk! Track after track, album after album.....nothing but rambling on in a monotone voice, accentuated occasionally by ( hold on top your sanity now)......by the occasional RHYME! Gadzooks! Methinks it is all I can do not to become a rap-musician stalker! (groan)/

And because they can't play anything, what else are they going to do besides lift other people's hooks and memorable riffs...all of which will of course come from a day and age when people cared about whether someone had musical talent.
But now, should anyone ask them 'WTF they think they're doing!?', they'll claim "oh no! We weren't stealing anything, just merely "sampling" it! And to top it all off, instead of having a drum kit, a guitar or two onstage, the skit will have them using turntable where they not only will play bits and pieces of actual music, they'll play even that bit backwards, forwards. scratching the piss out records while madly twisting reverb knobs, sliding fades between multiple turntables, all stacked with records they can't let go any more than 15 secs or so because that would clearly be copyright infringement (as if 5 sec. isn't?)

F'ing hilarious as a Saturday Night Live skit, right? Yet this shit is now everywhere and being lauded as if it was actual music!!??? WTF!!??? Is this retribution for our lyrics not always being clear as they could be? So screw it...your not going to sing anymore? But instead just deliver non-lyrical lyrics? Help me out here cuz I really don't understand why this has happened....(honestly).

Not actually that funny, but I guess SNL has gone downhill these days .. maybe you should try getting this brilliant idea to them. But you say you want help understanding, I'll try to lend you a hand. To start off, I am by no means a fan of just rap. I listen to the Rolling Stones, to the Beatles, to John Popper working miracles on the harmonica, to John Mayer and Pino Palladino playing the blues, even to the Cello Concertos written by Luigi Boccherini. And yes, I listen to rap.

By no means is all rap good. Lots of rappers are god aweful.. no singing voice, not saying anything clever, just ramblin' on about how they get money, girls, etc. Some people are into that kind of rap; I don't get it. It baffles me how Gucchi man got rich off "rap." There are plenty of rappers with talent though, I can name plenty of rappers, off the top of my head, who play piano, or guitar, or are actually d'mn good singers. Ever listened to the Roots? Kanye (bit of an ego, but still very talented)? Jay-Z almost always plays his shows with a live band. J. Cole produced an impressive amount of beats before he "made it big" on his own that are musically pretty good. Gym Class Heroes.. lead singer is a rapper, but yes they have a drummer, guitarist, the whole nine yards. Oh, and yea Travie can sing.

And the wordplay in their lyrics can be incredibly clever; I can learn the lyrics to almost any classic rock, or most other genres, pretty easily. Rap is a different story.. they bend words in ways that you might not get for the first twenty listens, but then you see what they have used the word to convey, reinventing it, putting it in new perspective. The vocabulary of some of these guys is insane, you know Eminem reads the dictionary for fun right? If you think its not talent, try memorizing a rap song, better yet, try rapping... get your voice to roll along a beat, try pronouncing 10 syllables in a second. You can't do it.

As I've alluded to, there are plenty of rappers who don't constantly just use other samples. But as for the ones who do, have you never heard a band do a cover? You're opposed to hearing old songs you love in a new light? I'm not.. don't think too many people are.

This is outrageous that Nirvana's nevermind is top 20 but possibly one of the greatest albums ever and obviously the best pink Floyd album ever is number 43. The dynamics of this album and the wide array of talent and originality displayed throught out the entire album shows it deserves a top 10 seat. Rolling stone you suck

DSotM should definitely be higher. However, "Nevermind was our (Nirvana's) sellout." Kurt Cobain. When the key musician calls it a sellout, It's NOT a great album. I like the album but, by virtue of the artists own disdain for it, it should not even be ranked as high as it is.

Also to make you more reassured about his taste in music he has 2pac can't handle a 6pac, biggie noballs in his top 20 list. How do you feel about music guy now? "White Cr*p On Rap" by the Tubes. Every Flyod album is better than anyRap album! So put a fish stick in your mouth. Oops I see tater sauce dripping please swallow.

Oh are you getting a little defensive because you know i have far better taste in music then you and i know way BETTER music then you little fish? By the way The Clash's original release is way better then the us release just to let you know :)

You don't even know the difference: USA version has
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais,Clash City Rockers,Jail Guitar Doors,I Fought the Law and perhaps the best song on the album "Complete Control." All left off the UK release perhaps because it was released about a year earlier. Compare that with the weaker songs released on the UK version earlier:
"Deny""Cheat""Protex Blue""48 Hours Perhaps some of their weakest singles.btw the 1st album release by The Clash in the USA was Give Em' Enough Rope That shoud also be listed on RS top album list! How a rap artist album could ever be considered higher than any Clash Album is Complete sh*t!! This is the Only Band That Matters!!

Oh i think i hit a nerve didn't I? Just realize that the original will always be the leader of the two and except it. And by the way i only read the first line because i didn't feel like reading all that rambling xD